{"product_id":"9798765103159","title":"Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic : Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art by Dr.Joe Jackson","description":"\"It's wonderful to read  a book that ranges across music, cinema, music video art, and  literature with such ease. One of the beautiful things about this book  is that it is really attentive to relationships, and this is  particularly clear when talking about Kahlil Joseph's creative mentors  and comrades, including Arthur Jafa and Terrence Malick.\" -Tsitsi Ella  Jaji, Helen S. Bevington Associate Professor of Modern Poetry; Associate  Professor of African \u0026amp; African American Studies, Duke University,  USAKahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA  twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He  has directed numerous films, music videos and advertisements across  Africa, America and Europe. The award-winning filmmaker's disruptive  style - which frequently merges visual representations of  transcontinental experiences with the countercultural energies of  Afrodiasporic music - challenges the Eurocentric biases underpinning  Western media. At the same time, his works generate various  contradictions and tensions because they are themselves products  situated within an economic framework of neoliberal capitalism, at once  offering alternative ways of being while, simultaneously, participating  in and thereby sustaining the social structures that they otherwise seek  to subvert and dismantle.   This is the first book-length study of  Kahlil Joseph's work. Distinguishing the artist's personal and  professional personas, it traces Joseph's career trajectory and artistic  output, emphasizing how the director's construction of a multifaceted  filmmaking persona operates in tandem with his artworks to challenge fixed, unidimensional or stable notions of identity.   Through  biographical study and deep examinations of the director's respective  transmedia artworks, this book draws from various discussions shaped by  Paul Gilroy's ground-breaking text The Black Atlantic (1993). By applying The Black Atlantic's  disruptive audiocentric ideas to contemporary digital media forms  generated by Kahlil Joseph and his peers alike, this book challenges the  latent Eurocentricity on which dominant theorizations of 'modernity' -  as well as the overlapping fields of Film, Media and Screen Studies -  are grounded. In turn, it offers an alternative framework for  negotiating the paradoxes,  contradictions and transnational flows of  our media-saturated present: namely, the Audiovisual Atlantic.   This  book has been selected as runner up for Best First Monograph 2025 by  BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies).\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311465771381,"sku":"9798765103159","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798765103159.jpg?v=1762817891","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9798765103159","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}